Using the present to create the future

Dr Derek W. KeatsdKeats Innovation

http://www.dkeats.comderek@dkeats.com

+27 82 787 0169

How can we move South Africafrom consumer to producer of

web technologies

   

   

   

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2011Not whatit will be ...

… but how dowe play a partin its creation

My assigned task

Keynotes in South Africa

   20th Century

Let's go back...

   

In this ancient world ofthe 20th

Century

Computerswere big!

People went to

computers

The web linked media thatwere representations of

traditional content ...

Serversprovidedcontent

SearchBrowsing

the web

But now.....

   

Change is afoot...

… with the Web

The things we do over http:// have

changed andwill continue

changing

We need to decide

Do we help create change, and benefitaccordingly, or do we just fall in line

with what happensas we do now,

mostly

   

   

a 'web of data' that enables machines to 'understand' the

meaning of information on the World Wide Web

   

What exactly is today's WWW anyway?

Web Server

TCP/IP

http

Client device

Web browser

HumanA programrunning

somewhere

It's just data

   

What exactly is today's WWW anyway?

Web Server

TCP/IP

http

Client device

Web browser

Human

A programrunning

somewhere

Here beopportunities

It's just data

   

Content

Earlyweb

Recentweb

Today'sweb

Tomorrow'sweb

Licenses thatfoster sharing and reusability

Platforms for sharing andremixingcontent

Free Software(Open Source) Platforms that

are free but owned

   

Content

Social

Earlyweb

Recentweb

Today'sweb

Tomorrow'sweb

MySpace

Co

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spe c

ific

soc

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etw

ork

s

   

Social networking and semantic web

e.g.

Crowdsourced curationof research papers

for researchers

The social academic

   

Content

Social

Semantic

Earlyweb

Recentweb

Today'sweb

Tomorrow'sweb

ContextThe links mean something

   

   

Linkeddata Using the Web to

connect related data

Extends http and URIs

Data can beread automatically

by computers

Data fm different sources can be

connected & queried

You don't have to be human

to access anduse it

   

Content

Social

Semantic

Earlyweb

Recentweb

Today'sweb

Augmentedreality

Tomorrow'sweb

   

Augmented reality

A live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery ...

… in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements ...

… information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally usable.

   

   

   

   

Content

Social

Semantic

Earlyweb

Recentweb

Today'sweb

Augmentedreality

Things

Tomorrow'sweb

The Internet ofTCP/IP

Version 6

   

Content

Social

Semantic

Earlyweb

Recentweb

Today'sweb

Augmentedreality

Things

People

Tomorrow'sweb

Augmented

   

Content

Social

Semantic

Earlyweb

Recentweb

Today'sweb

Augmentedreality

Things

People

Tomorrow'sweb

Augmented

   

Content

Social

Semantic

Earlyweb

Recentweb

Today'sweb

Augmentedreality

Things

People

Tomorrow'sweb

Augmented

   

HTTP_GET

The key elements that build on it are dug out of the human mind, not out of the ground

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Education

Belief

Attitude

   

Risk aversion

He left out a comma on the user interface

Fail fast,fail often,

fail cheaply

Don'tfail

   

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Belief in ourselves

   

Scale

At least two orders of magni-tude

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Permission cultureE

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Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, image from Wikipedia

When core things are free and open, there are no barriers to innovation.

When Bob Khan and I created TCP/IP and a bunch of us built a platform for internetworking, we did not patent the technologies used. We set TCP/IP free. Had we not done so, it is doubtful if the Internet as we know it today would have come into being.

TCP/IP

   

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, image from Wikipedia

I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the first webserver fromWikipedia

When core things are free and open, there are no barriers to innovation.

When Bob Khan and I created TCP/IP and a bunch of us built a platform for internetworking, we did not patent the technologies used. We set TCP/IP free. Had we not done so, it is doubtful if the Internet as we know it today would have come into being.

TCP/IP http & HTML

   

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, image from Wikipedia

I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the first webserver fromWikipedia

When core things are free and open, there are no barriers to innovation.

When Bob Khan and I created TCP/IP and a bunch of us built a platform for internetworking, we did not patent the technologies used. We set TCP/IP free. Had we not done so, it is doubtful if the Internet as we know it today would have come into being.

http & HTMLTCP/IP

   

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, image from Wikipedia

I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the first webserver fromWikipedia

When core things are free and open, there are no barriers to innovation.

When Bob Khan and I created TCP/IP and a bunch of us built a platform for internetworking, we did not patent the technologies used. We set TCP/IP free. Had we not done so, it is doubtful if the Internet as we know it today would have come into being.

Layers of innovation built on Freedom

http & HTMLTCP/IP

   

Key

ch a

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Started ina universityenvironment

largelyinformal

WithoutFOSS

they would not havedone it

Jerry Ya ng &

Da vid F

ilo

   

Venture capital & angel investment

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Get out of the maths and science hole● Stop thinking if you don't have maths you

can't do anything useful

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Wasting our youth

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680 000 wrote matricin 2010

230 000 qualify for university

130 000 found places at university 100 000

did not find places at university

77 000 will be unemployedafter graduation

   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tengeru_market.jpg

Universities in South Africa

   

A new type of institution

Innovation

   

Thank youThis presentation was made entirely using Free Software

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Derek Keats, PhD

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